The lack of coal and iron resources is a major weakness in France's national destiny! However, this weakness is not irreparable. If France really makes up its mind to make up for this defect, they can completely solve this problem through a huge colony.

France lacks coal and iron resources, but its colonies are not short of them. Just like Britain, there are not many coal and iron resources in the UK. However, they made up for resource defects through their vast colonies. Therefore, Britain has so far the largest steel and coal production in the world.

But the French seem to care about such huge flaws at all and have never thought of making up for them. Why is this?

In fact, what is fatal is because there is something wrong with the French’s own national character!

These are usury pupils who are greedy for pleasure in a country! Moreover, their aristocratic capitalists are even more addicted to the luxurious palace style and cannot extricate themselves. This is the bad habit developed during the Sun King period!

With rich clothes and food, luxuriousness and lust, all over France are full of food, drinking and enjoyment.

In order to satisfy such a life, France's economic structure has one-sided unreasonable phenomenon, that is, it is to focus on light industry, but it is light on heavy industry!

The Prussian intelligence agency conducted a careful spy on the French government. The result was that 70% of France's GDP was provided by light industry last year, while only 30% were provided by heavy industry.

And what are these light industries? They are high-end tea sets, crystal products, expensive furniture, grape wine, exquisite food, luggage and leather goods that are popular in Europe, and beautiful clothing and hats... In other words, the entire French light industry is basically for luxury goods.

Can this kind of thing fight? Obviously not!

Excessive obsession with luxury goods will naturally cause a deformed development in their light industry, because luxury goods are difficult to quantitatively produce, and of course, things that are quantitatively produced cannot be called luxury goods.

Therefore, France's light industry is basically small workshops with dozens of people, and there are very few large factories with more than a thousand people.

Haha! The more I talked about it, the more I felt that I saw a European version of the Qing Empire. Before the Qing Empire was defeated by Britain, I was also in arrogance and fantasy. At that time, the luxury and enjoyment trend of the Qing Dynasty was even more serious than that of France now!

Well, let’s take a look at the most critical basic element in the industrial revolution, that is, railways, and see how the French railways are built?

In 1869, the total mileage of highways in France last year was 17,900 kilometers, but Prussia had built 21,400 kilometers of railways, and the number of trains and locomotives was several times that of the French. In other words, Prussia definitely had the advantage in the mobilization of troops, materials, resources, etc. in the war.

Xiao Luotianyue said that William I's mouth became wider and wider. He was completely shocked by these data, but there were even more shocking things behind him.

Dear Your Majesty, let us take a look at the agriculture in France. We must admit that from the perspective of geographical conditions, France is warmer than our Prussian climate. Due to the influence of the Mediterranean and Atlantic climates, it is more suitable for the development of agriculture. We have always been a weakness in agriculture in history.

But the natural gap in conditions can be completely compensated by systems in the later period. We all know that during the French Revolution, the feudal land concentration system in the past was abolished and turned into small land ownership held by farmers. In other words, large pieces of land were completely dismantled and divided into scattered pieces.

As we all know, since farmers have very weak ability to resist various risks, after decades of development, this system of scattered farmers holding small land is destined to have serious polarization.

There will always be people who are good at calculating and make their lives better and better, and those who are not lucky enough to make their lives worse and worse!

This is a long-term polarization process, and the polarization in rural France at this moment has become serious in dire straits.

France did not develop heavy industry, which means it did not have too many factory enterprises, which could accommodate bankrupt and poor peasants. The so-called French working class should belong to the urban citizen class in a sense.

Farmers who are truly destitute and bankrupt cannot survive in metropolitan cities because they do not have the technology to enter the luxury industry, and there are not many large factories that can provide them with the opportunity to sell cheap labor.

They could only live in a miserable countryside and became slaves to usury, a new kind of slave, a slave to financial products and capital.

It is very strange that since the French are not too obsessed with land, the subsequent social trend of this polarization is completely different from that of China.

If it is in China, for example, once the land in the Qing Dynasty is scattered, another serious polarization will occur in less than a few decades. What will happen in the end?

On one side is the rise of the new landlord class, and on the other side is the extremely poor peasants become tenants.

In the Qing Empire, this was a process of land concentration. Rich people prefer land ownership, but France is not. The rich people in France are very strange. They like to lend usury instead of directly occupying land ownership!

Perhaps 30 years ago, the two families were similar farmers, but thirty years later, one of them had a very good business and became a wealthy family with a financial surplus, while the other became a bankrupt household that couldn't make a fuss.

At this time, the rich people do not like Chinese people, like to buy land directly from bankrupt people, but let the bankrupt people continue to hold the land!

In order to continue to operate the land and maintain normal production on this land, these bankrupts have to borrow from wealthy families. This is the social reality of usury!

Some people say that the whole nation of France is a usury, and even the French economy is a usury imperialism. I agree deeply with this.

Extremely poor farmers have to lock on the land generation after generation, turning the surplus of hard work every year into interest on usury.

At the same time, the ownership of those lands is still in their hands, which makes them have a strange fantasy about the future!

It is precisely because of these fantasies that they are reluctant to leave their land and are unable to change their identities and become free handicraftsmen! This has also intensified the restrictions and the development of large-scale industrialization in France.

Without sufficient number of workers, heavy industry is difficult to develop.

In contrast, in Prussia, over the past few decades, the serfdom has abolished the serfdom and vigorously promoted the large-scale farm economy under capitalism. In this way, large-scale farms can stimulate the development of agricultural mechanization. However, those farmers or serfs who have lost their land and have nothing, entered the city under the pressure of life and devoted themselves to the working class.

This creates a win-win situation. Due to the improvement of technological and intensive development, agricultural output is increasing year by year.

The development of the second industry has also received urgently needed human resources. Because of the support of a huge free population base, Prussia's industrial development is much smoother than that of France.

"Dear Your Majesty, Prussia's entire national strength can be said to have completely crushed France, and this has been deeply hidden by Besme. The whole world still thinks that Prussia is still the weak nation in the past!"

"The whole world has been deceived. Once the war breaks out, they will definitely be shocked to their glasses!"
Chapter completed!